It isn't going to happen.
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Louisiana Governor says shortfall may mean no LSU football next season
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You got that right........never ever, ever,ever gonna happen. Just typical political posturing. Louisiana
is and has been a mess for decades.
is and has been a mess for decades.
Cajuns will take him trolling for gators....with him as bait.
Misleading thread title. He didn't threaten to cancel anything. He's saying the short fall cause the schools to close. As a result students will receive an incomplete for their grade. If athletes have all I's they are not eligible to play. Since all athletes would have all I's then there would be no team to compete.
It's definitely just a scare tactic to get his higher taxes, but he didn't actually threaten athletics at all.
It's definitely just a scare tactic to get his higher taxes, but he didn't actually threaten athletics at all.
-Higher Education screaming for money is funny. Tuition is at an all time high.Capital construction is at an all-time high on campus.
-Spend money on education...not a facilities arms race. Eliminate courses of study that have low job placement rates. Tighten your belt and get to work...we all have to do it. Taxes are high enough.
-i make my living from capital construction...and i majored in philosophy. I know of what I speak.
-Spend money on education...not a facilities arms race. Eliminate courses of study that have low job placement rates. Tighten your belt and get to work...we all have to do it. Taxes are high enough.
-i make my living from capital construction...and i majored in philosophy. I know of what I speak.
All these politicians want more money to wast on BS, so they can have more to do more wasteful spending. It's a ploy to get more out of the hard working people so they can spend more on crap programs to give out more free stuff for votes,(politics as 101). I have a novel idea, why not trim some fat from the budget,cut some of the redundant job's that overlap.
I think he wants more vacation money to waste.Boo Hoo Hoo I don't have enough money to blow on my ho's.
GBB
I think he wants more vacation money to waste.Boo Hoo Hoo I don't have enough money to blow on my ho's.
GBB
The campus may be shut down...but athletics, Football especially will go on...
I would be curious to see how much of that 940 million actually went to athletics...if the school was to give whatever amount back...i think the major private donations would still flow in and be able to keep things running...I'm sure the deep pockets would be able to pony up some more to cover it...
Major athletics are run on booster money...oil money, coal money, tech money, real estate money, major car dealership money, construction money, old money, horse money...etc...
everything in that state can fail...football will be the last to go...
if he and everyone in the state house want to get re-elected they'll find a way other than threatening football...
I would be curious to see how much of that 940 million actually went to athletics...if the school was to give whatever amount back...i think the major private donations would still flow in and be able to keep things running...I'm sure the deep pockets would be able to pony up some more to cover it...
Major athletics are run on booster money...oil money, coal money, tech money, real estate money, major car dealership money, construction money, old money, horse money...etc...
everything in that state can fail...football will be the last to go...
if he and everyone in the state house want to get re-elected they'll find a way other than threatening football...
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Hell he just got into office 1 month ago, and this moron threatens LSU football? Forget only being a 1 termer, I'll be surprised if he lasts all 4 years without being impeached/removed from office.
such a stupid threat, just like UK athletics LSU athletics are self funding - in addition to 'donating' some of their hard earned money back to the 'academic' side.
such a stupid threat, just like UK athletics LSU athletics are self funding - in addition to 'donating' some of their hard earned money back to the 'academic' side.
Yeah this dude is a short timer. Imagine a guy standing in Frankfort saying something like that about UK basketball. How long would that guy last? They love football like Kentucky loves basketball. Like someone above said he's using something they care a lot about to try to leverage his agenda. Have a feeling this is gonna backfire.
Why is it that every left leaning politician that gets into office starts raising taxes on the middle class instead of cutting out nonessental bureaucratic jobs? How about getting rid of nonessential services, duplicated services, cutting the millions in corporate welfare and kickbacks, making health insurance portable from state to state in order to reduce costs, end the extensive benefits packages of government workers and instead tie them to merit and years of service versus a cart Blanche system of eternal benefits once you leave government service?
We are ALL workers who are trying to provide adequately for our families, but keep being undermined by excessive taxation by people who will never have to purchase healthcare or retirement benefits for themselves again. It is reprehensible for a state governor to use political blackmail in an effort raise taxes on the very folks who will be supporting him and his family for years to come.
We are ALL workers who are trying to provide adequately for our families, but keep being undermined by excessive taxation by people who will never have to purchase healthcare or retirement benefits for themselves again. It is reprehensible for a state governor to use political blackmail in an effort raise taxes on the very folks who will be supporting him and his family for years to come.
It doesn't matter how much LSU makes. If the university is shut down then athletes will not have the requisite credit hours in order to be NCAA eligible.
He isn't threatening to not fund the football program or whatever, it's literal as simple as: academics shut down, athletes can't go to class, athletes are academically ineligible for the 2016 season.
Doubt it happens, but it really doesn't matter how big LSU athletics are. It isn't like the governor is threatening the football team, specifically. He is saying if the schools don't get funded this is what will happen
He isn't threatening to not fund the football program or whatever, it's literal as simple as: academics shut down, athletes can't go to class, athletes are academically ineligible for the 2016 season.
Doubt it happens, but it really doesn't matter how big LSU athletics are. It isn't like the governor is threatening the football team, specifically. He is saying if the schools don't get funded this is what will happen
If the North Carolina governor threatened to shut down their classes some of their players might ask "what classes"?
What this says to me is that during the last few years of increased oil revenues, the government spent like drunken sailors, so now that there is a year that oil revenues are less, they aren't able to cut spending back to historical levels. Uses education as the whipping boy. Typical approach to posture for higher taxes.
I don't understand how LSU could not have money. If they do their tuition anything like UK does (raise it practically every school year) and then have a successful football program that brings in a lot of money each year, you would have to be the biggest idiot on the planet to lose money as an institution.
Louisiana State is a state institution with a state set budget. Universities don't run on their football teams or on their tuition , they need their appropriations. If LSU-Alexandria can't pay their bills, it doesn't matter that LSU-Baton Rouge has a good football team.
Tuition helps a great deal, and that's why tuitions are raised when appropriations are cut, but without appropriations, there is no university. With no university, there is no LSU football.
As in Kansas, La had a gov who wanted to cut taxes for the richer 10% said it would grow the economy. As in Kansas, La can barely now keep their schools open for lack of funds. This new gov is probably going to have to raise taxes and tuition because of Piyush's "leadership".
I dare say that the university system in La has been cutting everything for while, even before this current budget crisis.
I dare say that the university system in La has been cutting everything for while, even before this current budget crisis.
I know this single incident isn't a huge waste of state funds, but recently I made a trip to middle Georgia and saw a flagman ahead sign. So I slowed down and just before going over a bridge was the flagman, with another at other end of bridge, with a 3rd standing in the middle of bridge telling them when to turn their sign. These 3 flagman were protecting a guy using a jackhammer to remove about a 2 ft square section of broken concrete on the bride, while 4 guys stood leaning against one of the 4 door pickups supervising. About 2 hours later I came back same crews doing same jobs except for the jackhammer operator, he was putting the finish on fresh concrete. 8 guys doing a small job of repairing a 2 ft square section of concrete probably cost the sate 3k in salaries alone. A drop in the bucket, but Georgia has a lot of bridges. We just went to 26cents a gallon tax on gasoline to build a 35 mile toll road with 3 exits and entries, 1 on each side of Atlanta and one in Atlanta that is suppose to help traffic flow during rush hour, but it is going to cost about 125 a week if you using it both ways 5 days a week.